Medical marijuana has popular support, lacks money to pass

3:15 AM,
Mar. 6, 2014

A worker cultivates a special strain of medical marijuana known as Charlotte's Web on Feb. 7 inside a greenhouse in a remote spot in the mountains west of Colorado Springs, Colo. Charlotte's Web is a proprietary strain of marijuana in which the psychoactive THC has largely been bred out, and the other cannabinoid compounds thought to be medically useful accentuated. Increasing evidence that the pot strain is helping some children with epilepsy has led more than 100 families to relocate to Colorado for treatment since last summer, when success stories about Charlotte's Web began circulating via social media.

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Chrissie Thompson
The Cincinnati Enquirer

In 2003, Rob Ryan got cancer, the second of his three battles against the disease. This time, it was in his colon.

The chemotherapy was wreaking havoc in his body. He wasn't eating. Medicines his doctor prescribed didn't stem his nausea. He was allergic to the opiates he received. Ryan, of Cincinnati, was wasting away.

"So I said, 'Forget this,' and I started to use marijuana. It worked," Ryan told The Cincinnati Enquirer. He smoked in an upstairs bathroom. Soon, even his wife was convinced. ...